What do you do when the choice you made was the wrong one? During the war, Jeff Hawkins's tenderness had been nurse Angela's sanctuary from the horrors of Vietnam, and his passion had been their salvation.

But Jeff had been wounded long before a bullet brought him to the EVAC hospital. Fearless, with nothing to lose, Jeff was the kind of soldier to whom they awarded Purple Hearts . . . posthumously.

Years later, when he encountered Angela again at a veterans' reunion, she could no longer pretend that the madness of war had triggered their brief, all–consuming alliance.

Could they have a second chance? Or had she forfeited any claim to Jeff's love when she did the unforgivable . . . married his best friend? Not all wounds are visible . . . and not all wounds can be healed by the soft touch of a nurse's hands. But Angela knew he was worth fighting for . . . and Jeff was tired of fighting.